THE shape of Blackburn’s £33 million Cathedral Quarter can now be clearly seen as windows and stonework clad its three main buildings.
The new 60-bed Premier Inn Hotel now has masonry covering the rear opposite the railway station with the glass frontage all-but complete.
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Next door, the majority of the yellow stone cladding is on the office block, sold last month for £91 million, and glass panels are starting to cover the frontage facing the new square central area next to the re-opened Railway Road.
At the rear of the development. the steel superstructure of the £6 million Clergy Court complete with cloister garden is complete and the stonework is now being applied to that skeleton as well.
All is on track for a pre-Christmas opening, which will mark the completion of Blackburn’s biggest building and regeneration project for decades.
Blackburn Cathedral Canon Andrew Hindley said: “I have been working on this project for 14 years.
“It is amazing to see it finally coming together.
“It is on track for completion by December and we are all ready planning function with the hotel for Christmas and the New Year.
“The cathedral residential court scheme is very complex and its really exciting .”
The residential complex for clergy with cloister garden will be the first such development at a English cathedral for 600 years.
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